Transplant Tourism

The practice of travelling to another country—especially India, China, or the Philippines—for solid organ transplantation. While transplant tourism is typically cheaper, transplant tourists may be subject to sub-standard surgical care, poor organ matching, unhealthy donors, and post transplant infection, prompting some institutions in the US to refuse to treat the tourists who return needing post-op care or even a new organ, should their ‘tourist’ organ fail